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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MAYOR DE BLASIO? Not on the Upper East Side, according to an analysis of his schedule BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

As the de Blasio family prepares to move into Gracie Mansion in coming weeks, the mayor will want to spend some time familiarizing himself with his adopted neighborhood, considering how little time he’s spent there since being elected. According to an analysis of his official schedule, Mayor de Blasio spent less than 24 hours on the Upper East Side in his first three months in office. The mayor’s schedule shows a total of 15 meetings

in the neighborhood in the first quarter of this year, fewer than in Brooklyn or in Queens. Most of his time in the neighborhood – 21 hours and 35 minutes over three months– were at official events held at Gracie Mansion: inauguration ceremonies, meals with VIPs like Harry Belafonte and former Mayor David Dinkins. De Blasio ventured outside of Gracie Mansion only a handful of times over the course of his first 90 days in office. While de Blasio’s absence from the Upper East Side may be awkward, considering he’s about to live here, it’s not entirely a surprise. The neighborhood is one of the

few parts of New York City lost by de Blasio in his sweeping win over his Republican opponent, Joe Lhota. Almost from the beginning, his relationship with the neighborhood has been rocky. Many local residents hold a grudge against him for his support of the East 91st Street waste transfer station, which they see as a looming environmental disaster. Then, this winter, when the Upper East Side suffered from a lack of snow plow coordination during some of the winter’s worst storms, some residents blamed political payback. “The Upper East Side is hostile territory” to de Blasio, said political analyst and

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Mayor de Blasio will soon be moving into a neighborhood where he spent little time during his first three months in office. Baruch College public affairs professor Doug Muzzio. “The Upper East Side is the home of the one percent, and the one percent of the one percent, so his message doesn’t necessarily resonate with

them.” Muzzio said that it’s tough to speculate about de Blasio’s schedule without comparing it to previous mayors, as well as looking at a longer-term

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BATTLE OF THE BOARD NEWS Members to choose new leader for the L.E.S. & Chinatown community board on June 24 BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

LOWER EAST SIDE It’s somewhat rare to see a contested race in community board elections. Indeed, five of the six elected positions on Community Board 3 have only one nominee. But the position of chair is a two-way race between incumbent Gigi Li and newcomer Chad Marlow, who’s in his second year on the board. The race for the board’s highest position is indicative of the friction that has plagued it in recent months, which includes charges of mismanagement and racial insensitivity against Li. Li didn’t respond to repeated requests for an interview. Board manager Susan Stetzer said she’s been quite busy navigating the non-profit she runs, the CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

Last week, Success Acadamy Charter Schools announced its intentions to establish 14 new charter schools in the city. The school network will submit applications to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute, which grants charters for the state, to operate new schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens. Four applications will be submitted for schools to open in August 2015, including in Manhattan community education districts 2 and 3, and ten applications will be for schools slated to open in August 2016. Success Academy said in a press release that it was responding to the demand they’ve seen in applications for their existing charter schools, having received over 14,400 applications for fewer than 3,000 open seats.

GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH Last year, more than half of the murders committed in the state were in New York City. Throughout the month of June, New Yorkers can raise awareness and help reduce the incidence of gun violence by participating in events, activities, and working groups. First Lady Chirlane McCray filmed video and audio PSAs with Council Member Jumaane Williams to encourage New Yorkers to participate in Gun Violence Awareness Month. “Guns have caused so much needless pain and violence in our communities,” said McCray. “We need more voices in the conversation on reducing gun violence, and this begins at the grassroots level. I urge all New Yorkers to take a stand and get involved—there’s too much at stake.” Visit www. gunviolenceawarenessmonth. org for information on how to get involved.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK LAST KOSHER RESTAURANT been in an ongoing five-year battle with ON L.E.S. CLOSES the New York City Health Department Shalom Chai Pizza at 375 Grand Street, the last kosher restaurant on the Lower East Side, is no more, reported the Forward. The infamous pizzeria had

over numerous health-code violations found during inspections. In 2012 and 2013, Shalom Chai was shut down by the Health Department due to evidence

of mice and uncleanliness among staffers. Shalom Chai’s location, owned by the Seward Park Co-op, lost another tenant recently – Noah’s Ark Deli – the L.E.S.’s last full-service kosher restaurant. Forward Shalom Chai Pizza was the last kosher restaurant on the Lower East Side; it’s closing after a battle with the Health Department.

NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT AT ELDRIDGE STREET MUSEUM On June 12, the historic Museum at Eldridge Street opened a $325,000 exhibit and visitors center. The exhibit sheds light on the 127-year-old Eldridge Synagogue’s past, featuring photos of Jewish immigrants and centuriesold stained glass. The synagogue, a national historic landmark that houses the museum, also serves about two dozen congregants, according to DNAinfo. The new exhibit includes an interactive digital display, as well as artifacts that once belonged to members of the Eastern European immigrant community, the original congregants of the Eldridge Synagogue. DNAinfo.com

P.J. CLARKE’S LAWSUIT The Daily News reported that the famous restaurant P.J. Clarke’s is currently in the middle of a $40 million lawsuit with the landlord of their Battery Park location, Brookfield Office Properties. Filed by P.J. Clarke’s, the lawsuit claims that their landlord is trying to push them out to make room for new tenants. The restaurant claims that after Brookfield asked for P.J. Clarke’s to move or give up half their space, to which the restaurant said

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no, the landlords began a deliberate campaign to oust their tenants before the lease expires in 2020. Alleged tactics have included: putting up sidewalk sheds to barricade the restaurant’s views of the Hudson and taking down a sign from the barricades to indicate P.J. Clarke’s location. Brookfield did not reply to the newspaper for comment. Daily News

CONTROVERSIAL WTC TOWER IMAGE USED RocksOffEntertainment, a concert company that offers concert cruises around New York Harbor removed an image from the website depicting one of the Twin Towers in mid-collapse, DNAinfo.com reported. The images outraged 9/11 victims and family members alike. “It’s a disgrace and disrespectful to the families of the people who died that day,” Jim Riches told the website. Riches’ son, Jimmy, was a firefighter who died on 9/11. This is not the first time that RocksOffEntertainment has used controversial imagery. One such example includes a T-shirt the company sells with an image of Yoko Ono’s face with the words, “Chapman Missed,” a reference to Mark Chapman, the man who assassinated Ono’s husband, John Lennon. DNAinfo.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG TERN FOR THE WORSE

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Someone made off with two folding bicycles. At 6 PM on Saturday, June 7, a man chained two bicycles to a pole in front of 350 W. Broadway before going to dinner. When he returned ninety minutes later, he found that someone had cut the chains, taken his bicycles, and left the chains on the ground. The stolen bikes were a Tern Eclipse X 20 valued at $2,200 and a Prodeco Mariner Sport electric priced at $860. The total value of the two twowheelers amounted to $3,060.

A man snatched a subway rider’s pocketbook from her hand. At 2:55 PM on Tuesday, June 3, a 39-year-old woman from Brooklyn was getting off the southbound 4 train at Broadway and John Street, when an unknown man in his thirties grabbed her pocketbook from her right-hand while she was on the staircase. The thief fled back into the station. Police searched the area but could not find the bandit or the pocketbook. The items stolen were $7,800 in cash, an iPhone 5 valued at $600, a black leather handbag costing $240, various debit and credit cards, a New York State ID card, and home keys. The total stolen amounted to $8,640.

TROUBLE BREWING Property was removed from an employee storage area in a Starbucks location. At 1:15 PM on Wednesday, June 4, possessions belonging to two employees were found to be missing from the storage area in the Starbucks at 482 West Broadway. Only store employees have access to the storage room, which requires a code to open the locked door. A camera above the door shows employees entering and exiting. In addition to the current employees, four employees no longer at this Starbucks also had access to the code. The items stolen were an Apple iPad Mini valued at $350, an iPhone 4 priced at $200, a brown leather Coach bag worth $100, an iPhone charger costing $50, a Calvin Klein wallet priced at $20, a debit card, Maine driver’s license, and a monthly Metro Card. The total taken came to $721.

TWINBAGGED One man and two women shoplifted a designer bag. At 6:25 PM on Tuesday, June 3, while store associates were assisting customers at the cash register counter of the Porsche Design store at 465 West Broadway, three suspects — one man and two women — came into the store and stole a bag displayed among others on a shelf at the front of the store. Video is available of the incident, showing the woman grabbing the bag and dropping it into a white shopping bag before all three shoplifters left the premises, fleeing in an unknown direction. The item stolen was a fuchsia Porsche Design TwinBag costing $1,950.

THE PARISIAN AND THE PICKPOCKET A pickpocket swiped a diner’s wallet. At 3:20 PM on Saturday, June 7, a 49-year-old male tourist from Paris was sitting down to eat on the second floor of the McDonald’s at 160 Broadway. He hung his blazer jacket on the back of his chair as an unknown man sat down at the table behind him. The tourist moved to pull his chair up to the table, when the man behind him turned and took the tourist’s wallet out of his jacket before leaving the store and fleeing northbound on Broadway. The tourist canceled his cards, and there was no unauthorized usage. The items stolen were $250 in cash, various credit cards, an ID, and driver’s license. The total stolen amounted to $250.

PARLOR PALL Someone stole items from a woman’s purse in a nightclub. At 1 AM on Saturday, June 7, a 27-year-old woman placed her purse on a shelf in the Parlor Club at 286 Spring Street and looked away from the bag for several minutes. When she turned back and checked her purse, she realized that items were missing from inside. The club had no surveillance cameras. The items stolen were an iPhone 5 valued at $600, a Metro Card worth $30, $20 in cash, a debit card, and a New York State driver’s license. The total purloined from the purse came to $650.

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sample, but acknowledged that if he is hesitant to venture to the Upper East Side, it wouldn’t be shocking. “Does he want to go up there and take abuse over the garbage transfer station, for example?” Muzzio said. “Has he been invited up there? There are so many variables.” For the purposes of this analysis, we counted the number of “events” on Mayor de Blasio’s official schedule, not the number of items listed. For example, if he arrived at a church in Brooklyn and was scheduled for a meet-and-greet with the pastor, followed by attending a service, and then a photo op with congregants, we counted that as one single “event,” not three. We counted each meeting with different people as an event, but we did not count phone calls as events. In January, the mayor had more events in the Bronx than he did on the Upper East Side. In February, de Blasio had six events (within 4 different days) in the neighborhood, all also at Gracie Mansion. In March, the mayor stepped outside his future doorstep and ventured to 5th Avenue for a private dinner with President Obama, as well as a march in the Greek Independence Day parade, a visit to the Citizens Budget Commission meeting, and a stop by the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Houses on East 93rd Street. Unsurprisingly, most of the mayor’s official business is conducted at City Hall, but he spends roughly a third of his work time, on average, outside his downtown office; in his first three months, we counted 538 events, 197 of which were around the five boroughs.

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< IN DEFENSE OF AIR BNB A comment from the web on our story “Air BnB-eware,” May 15, 2014: Even during the worst economy since the Great Depression, landlords were consistently given rate increases that were larger than when the economy was booming during the Clinton era. Instead of trying to destroy something

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MAYOR DE BLASIO MOVING TO MANHATTAN? “He’s doing his best not to alienate people, but from what I hear he’s struggling to balance people’s needs. I hope he continues to focus on lower-income housing.” Joyce

“I didn’t vote for him. He seems like he’s making a good effort, though he’s alienated another part of the population. I wish him well. His housing proposal sounds interesting.” Shereen

that works, that people enjoy, and that helps average New Yorkers make ends meet in an ever increasingly financially unforgiving city, why not embrace a good idea and find ways to make it work? Air BnB also provides visitors who might otherwise not be able to afford New York’s outrageous hotel prices, and draconian and

unreasonable occupancy taxes, the ability to come and enjoy our great city, as well as have an authentic neighborhood experience as opposed to a sterile and far from charming cookie cutter hotel stay. I’ll never understand people who stand in the way of innovation and attempt to destroy good ideas. Christopher Jared Demers

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where the kiosks are, but not every rider has a smart phone that can run it. Citi Bike needs to create a paper map that can be given out at hotels and at the bike kiosks.

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Citi Bikes, New York City’s public biking program, may well be the city’s best transport innovation since the subway. The program is a hit with residents, so much in fact that Citi Bike is a victim of its own success. Unlike the subway, Citi Bike receives no government subsidies. In addition to the yearly pass, you can also buy a day pass for $9.95 or a weekly pass for $25.00. While the yearly pass has been a major hit with locals (yours truly included), the blue bikes are in the red because not enough daily and weekly passes are being sold to visitors and tourists. So how can Citi bike sell more daily and weekly passes? Here are a few ideas:

Ease of use A yearly rider who wants a Citi Bike merely has to insert a key into the kiosk. It gets a little more complicated for a daily/weekly user. Each time they want to take out a bike, they have to insert their credit card into the kiosk, wait for a pass code and then punch the code into the kiosk holding the bike. Here again, local hotels could be the solution. While it is not possible to send keys to daily/weekly users, why not give the hotel reprogrammable keys that could be distributed to guests using Citi Bike? The keys could be returned when the guests leave and reprogrammed.

Give the rider more time

“I like him. I’m excited to see what he can do. It’s exciting that there’s a new mayor. It’s the dawn of a new era.” Nina

“Actually I hadn’t voted for him, but I’m satisfied with what he’s doing. I thought he was just doing a liberal talk, but it looks like he’s actually doing it.” Renée

A daily/weekly user can only keep a bike out for 30 minutes at a time. (A yearly key holder gets 45 minutes). After that he must either return the bike or face additional fees. Ironically after the bike’s put back in its kiosk, the same user can take it right back out and keep riding for another half hour at no additional charge. The time limits are fine for yearly users who generally just want to get from here to there. A tourist however, wants to explore. They want to lose themselves in the city. This is hard to do if you have to worry about checking a bike in every 30 minutes. The solution? Let daily/weekly users

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keep their bike out for 3 hours at times. Yes, Citi Bike may lose some overtime fees, but they will more than make up for that with the additional business.

would be a good place to start. In addition, Citi Bike needs to have more kiosks outside hotels and train the hotels’ concierges so they can easily explain the bike program to their guests.

Bring the bikes to the tourists Right now, Citi Bikes kiosks only go up to 60th Street in Manhattan. This means that many prime tourist attractions such as the Met and the Museum of Natural History are inaccessible by Citi Bike. Governor’s Island, a great place to explore by bike, also lacks a kiosk. Citi Bike is planning to expand, and popular tourist destinations

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There’s a map for that (or there should be) Nothing is more frustrating than trying to find a parking space in the city, but trying to find a kiosk can come close. Citi Bike did a good job of placing their kiosks below 60th Street, but you still have to find them. Citi Bike currently has a website and an app to show riders

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Sponsors Finally, Citi Bike needs to find additional sponsors. Yes Citi Bank has the prime spot, but they also have the prime spot at Citi Field, and that does not prevent the stadium from having signs from other sponsors all over the place. Citi Bike has kiosks in a high traffic city and is planning more. This is prime adverting space. Hey, it works for bus stops. Charles Gross is the Director of Commercial Leasing for Phipps Houses and the host of “Two On The Aisle,” a TV show covering Broadway.

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JUNE 19, 2014 Our Town

The Sixth Borough

For freethinking farmers, a Mecca

BY BECCA TUCKER woope, Virginia is not on the way anywhere. Was it lunacy to tack three hours’ driving and an extra day onto our already rather irresponsible road trip to an ultimate Frisbee tournament south of the MasonDixon, when both Husband Joe and I had work deadlines looming? But of course. I had to pull out all the stops: not-so-gentle reminders that it was my birthday, tears. I wanted to see Polyface Farms. I booked us a hotel at the last outpost of civilization before entering the Shenandoah Valley. I did my best to smooth the rough edges by picking as a Sunday dinner spot a brewpub that served Polyface pork. The bratwurstin-a-pretzel was better than I knew bar food could be. Even Joe, who usually doesn’t eat pork or beef, partook and looked pleased. But when we woke up Monday to a cold rain and unbroken gray skies – and wrapped the baby in a t-shirt, because we’d run out of diapers and erroneously ďŹ gured we’d ďŹ nd someplace to get some – it did seem that this might not be the best time to chitchat. So it was mostly in silence that we drove into the breathtaking red dirt valley, past cows munching grass in the rain, the wet accentuating their cowlicks; past a huge black Ferdinand-looking bull separated from our little orange Honda Fit by what looked like three rubber bands of electric fencing.

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Why, of the thousands of farms we’d passed, were we intent on making a pilgrimage to this one? We had an open invitation, for one. Everyone does. On any day but Sunday, anyone is welcome to come any time and walk around, watch the chores get done, peer into crannies. What conďŹ dence such openness requires. It’s like telling strangers to come on over, whether or not you’re home, and feel free to peek under the bed and in the toilet bowl. How refreshing, at a time when seeing our food system in action, on anything approaching a large scale, usually requires trespassing or watching a documentary. If we happened to see the farmer, Joel Salatin, here today, I thought I might tell him that he should run for president. He wouldn’t want to, but neither did the reluctant Roman farmer Cincinnatus want to put down his plow to lead his people. It’s probably for the best that we didn’t see him. The ďŹ rst thing we did see was one of the hoophouses we’d read about, full of chickens and rabbits. The plastic-covered frame was open to the elements at either end, but dry and cozy inside, thanks to the deep bedding of ďŹ ne wood chips on the oor, soaking up manure. The farm was still coming out of winter mode; it would be a couple days until the chickens would be moved into Salatin’s signature “chicken mobile.â€? Still, the hoophouse was also a classic Salatin system, light on infrastructure, heavy on creativity. In this case, rabbits lived in cages on a shelf. Their dung fell onto the oor, where the chickens ate it. We walked around the side of the hoophouse, peering in, when we noticed something. What did that chicken have in its beak? A rabbit pelt, ears still attached. Yikes. It was possible that the rabbit was intentionally fed to the chickens, as a protein source. (Chickens are omnivores, just like us.) It was also possible that a rabbit had escaped its cage and this was the result. I hoped it was the former, for the rabbit’s sake. This is why, I realized, most farmers don’t want visitors. Farming is not always picturesque. But it is always educational. We moved along. We

wanted to see the cows. There was one other couple poking around. We asked if they knew where the cows were, and we ended up walking up the long dirt road together. Scarlet and John Sweeney were from Wisconsin, where she worked in conventional agriculture doing something with potatoes, and he had just retired from a government job and taken a pension. They were expanding their small farm, where they raised pastured beef and slaughtered 10 head a year that they sold directly to friends, plus blueberries and honey. This was in a town with 1,000 eligible voters, worlds from either coast or a city, and yet they were conďŹ dent they’d sell out if they were to raise three times as many cattle. The local food movement, they were pleased to report, had made it to the heart of the Corn Belt. John pointed out a horned cow standing over her newborn, which already had a tag in its ear. That must have taken some doing, he chuckled, to get that baby away from that mama without getting gored. Scarlet squinted into the distance at a cow a ways away from the others, that might be calving. “What brought you here?â€? I asked. “Vacation,â€? said Scarlet. Then she confessed. “Well, really, I wanted to see the farm. I told him I’d behave myself on the rest of the trip,â€? so long as they got here. I nodded. Wisconsin was a long way to come. We were among kindred, lunatic spirits.

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What’s Next, a Bouncer? Rent-Regulated Tenants Excluded From Amenities

845 West End Avenue is the latest apartment building on the Upper West Side to be added to the list of those that bar rentregulated tenants from accessing some amenities. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons

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UPPER WEST SIDE In another example of high-end buildings giving some low-rate renters short shrift, rent-regulated tenants at 845 West End Avenue recently told the West Side Spirit they do not have access to the building’s fitness center like their market-rate co-op owning counterparts do. Gloria Zicht was born in the building, and after moving around in the years following college returned in the 1960s to her family’s rent-regulated apartment, living there ever since About ďŹ ve years ago many of the build

out. Those that do have protections said they’ve been barred access to amenities that have recently been built, including a ďŹ tness center and a children’s playroom. “It’s in the building, it shouldn’t be something that’s just set aside for condo owners,â€? said Zicht. “You have to have a card or a key or something.â€? Zicht said both she and her daughter, who lives with her, would use the gym if they were allowed to. Zicht showed a reporter down to the basement where, behind a locked door that appeared to open only with

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UPS tells employees to lie, overcharge customers: suit

U.P.S.’S SECRET MANHATTAN PROBLEM One of the Hagan brothers’ 11 Manhattan UPS stores, now closed.

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A former franchisee accuses the shipping giant of routinely gouging customers throughout the city BY KYLE POPE

Last month, when nearly a dozen UPS Stores across the city closed down in a single day, the initial focus was on the customers put out by the shutdown: dozens of people found themselves unable to access their rented mailboxes, while others complained of packages lost in the The UPS Store believes shuffle. On the West Side, a blog surfaced the allegations made against to swap information about the fate of a store on West 57th Street. it and UPS ... to be false. What none of these customers knew at The UPS Store customer service team is doing all we the time, though, was that they had uncan to assure the customers wittingly become part of a much bigger in the Manhattan store area – and at times bizarre – dispute involving affected are taken care of� the franchisee who until the shutdowns

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What can Brown screw from you? Two former UPS franchisees accuse the worldwide delivery service of telling employees to lie about the size and weight of packages in order to jack up prices on unsuspecting customers. Brothers Robert and Thomas Hagan, who owned and operated 11 UPS stores in Manhattan, claim in a federal lawsuit that a typical scam was to “add inches to the sides of measured boxes,� as well as an “enhanced declared value,� which allowed clerks to charge customers more. For example, a package with a length, width and depth totaling 26 inches would cost $106.85 to overnight from New York to Pittsburgh, but a 29-inch package would cost $117.19. In some cases, customers were overcharged as much as 400 percent, legal papers allege. “It’s pretty ugly,� said Steve Savva, the Hagans’ attorney. “It seems to be systematic, and the customers have no way of knowing.� The Hagans allege in court filings that The UPS Store, a subsidiary of the publicly traded United Parcel Service, was responsible for violating “the covenant of good faith and fair dealing� by: t 5FMMJOH DVTUPNFST UIBU HSPVOE EFMJWFSZ DPVME OPU CF HVBSBOUFFE BOE XPVME take longer than it actually would, in order to entice them to buy expensive, guaranteed air delivery. t $PODFBMJOH UIF DPTU PG DIFBQFS TIJQQJOH TFSWJDFT t $IBSHJOH DVTUPNFST GVFM TVSDIBSHFT GPS BJS EFMJWFSZ FWFO XIFO QBDLBHFT XFSFO U shipped by plane but by truck. Videotapes offered as evidence show UPS Store employees cheating customers,

UPS, and their right to operate a UPS store was revoked. But, in an effort to clear their name, the Hagans have ďŹ led an extraordinary claim against UPS in Federal Court that lays out, over 200 detailed pages, what they say is a systemic effort by UPS to rip off its Manhattan customers. The Hagans, UPS franchise owners since 2008 whose business grossed $6 million a year at its peak, even brought in a private investigator to secretly document the abuses they say occur at every UPS store in the city. Among their claims: Customers are routinely duped into paying more than necessary for shipping Employees are encouraged to lie about the weight and dimensions of packages to result in a higher bill Customers are told that one method of shipping is the cheapest, when often it is not The Hagans, in their lawsuit, says the deception is so widespread at UPS in

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From Vandals to Artists: Time Rouses More Appreciation for Graffiti

Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives on a farm upstate and writes about the rural life.

THESE WALLS CAN TALK ART Current exhibits explore NYC streets’ past and present BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

Last November, one of New York’s most iconic art exhibits was uncermoniously whitewashed. Outdoor art space 5Pointz, a destination in Long Island City where graffiti writers from all over the world came to leave their mark, was covered over with white paint last November at the behest of the building’s owner, Jerry Wolkoff. When the vast walls of colorful graffiti were covered, Long Island City resident Jeffrey Leder took notice. Wolkoff had allowed graffiti writers to legally create work on his property for more than a decade, but now plans to demolish the building and construct residential high-rises after winning legal disputes with the 5Pointz artists. Leder, who operates an art gallery a block away, joined forces with Marie Cecile-Flageul, a member of the 5Pointz community who also manages its press, to curate “Whitewash,� an exhibition responding to the destruction, featuring work by nine artists who once painted at 5Pointz. Included in the exhibit are paintings by Meres One, the longtime curator of 5Pointz as well as prints

Leder about the debut of the exhibit. “It was a celebration 5Pointz of the life of 5Pointz and also showed that there mourning its death.â€? was a need for While “Whitewashâ€? is a di- graffiti culture rect response to the recent as a tourist events at 5Pointz, the Jeffrey destination spot, Leder Gallery is not the only and so therefore local space exploring graf- any gallery or art fiti’s presence in New York institution that City. In February, Museum of can provide people the City of New York opened with their graffiti “City as Canvas,â€? an exhibi- ďŹ x will do so.â€? tion of 1980s graffiti art. City Gregory J. Lore, a non-proďŹ t organiza- Snyder, author tion that preserves and pro- of “Graffiti motes folk and grassroots Lives: Beyond arts movements, opened its the Tag in New new gallery space in April York’s Urban Undergroundâ€? with “Moving Murals,â€? a photographic display of graffiti-covered subway cars shot by photographers Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper during the 1970s and early 1980s. “Graffiti is so emblematic of the way people can be creative in their own environment,â€? said Steve Zeitlin, founding director of City Lore, who noted that, while graffiti still exists in the city, painted train cars are rare. In August, Gothamist reported that a tagged 4 train was spotted in the Bronx, though Zeitlin said it didn’t stay in public view for very long. “They never make it out of the train yard,â€? Zeitlin said. While graffiti is more policed now than in the 1970s and 1980s, street art has become a more accepted public display in urban areas, thanks in no small part to the international celebrity of clandestine British street artist Banksy, who completed a month-long ‘residency’ on New York City’s streets in October. Gregory J. Snyder, a sociologist and professor at Baruch College whose book “Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Undergroundâ€? resulted from a decade of immersive research into graffiti’s subculture, makes a distinction between the two forms. “A lot of what we consider street art was antici

Above, a train mural from the City Lore exhibition. Photo by Henry Chalfant

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Left, Henry Chalfant and graffiti writer SHARP at the City Lore exhibition opening. Photo by Fernanda Kock

the early 1990s stared deďŹ antly at Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s cleanup efforts. Snyder also acknowledged the open tension between graffiti writers and street artists. “Street artists do not necessarily have to answer for their vandalism the same way that graffiti writers do,â€? he said. “Graffiti is thought to break windows, where street art is just, ‘hey, I’m putting up art.’ So it’s a little bit easier in the public mind to be a street artist than to be a grafďŹ ti writer, and I think both of those subcultures like it the way it is.â€? Abby Ronner, director of the City Lore gallery, echoes Snyder’s sentiments. “They’re totally different aesthetics,â€? Ronner said, noting that the City Lore exhibit explores an era when graffiti was transitioning from pure vandalism to legitimate expression in the art world’s view. Graffiti’s presence in galleries and museums isn’t new, Snyder said, nor is its alignment with ďŹ ne art. Brooklyn Museum exhibited graffiti in 2006 and included some of the same artists as the Museum of the City of New York show which

sent artists rooted in graffiti and street art. Many artists who were part of graffiti’s halcyon days have gone on to professional art careers, including Barry McGee, also known by his tag name Twist, and Steve Powers, known as ESPO, who are now successful studio artists. Still, Ronner notices a recent uptick in public interest. “In New York City, the cost of living is increasing so signiďŹ cantly and quickly, and there’s so much commercial development,â€? said Ronner. “A lot of people feel New York is being lost. The very deďŹ nition of New York and the character of it are lost. People are seeking old New York City culture.â€? Snyder suggests that Banksy’s mainstream success and the current popularity of street art renewed some interest in graffiti art and its culture, though he wonders if the recent events at 5Pointz affected gallery and museum attention. “Curators have a good sense of the moment,â€? said Snyder, who said that, though 5Pointz became a prestigious space for graffiti writers from all over the world it wasn’t necessarily home to

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TEENS TAKE TURNS ON OFF-BROADWAY STAGE THEATER High school student’s play explores homelessness, single motherhood BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

LOWER MANHATTAN The Pearl Theatre sits on the far west side of 42nd Street, an Off-Broadway stage that typically features classic plays with award-winning professional actors on stage. But during a recent two-night engagement, young actors from 10 of New York City’s public high schools took the stage, performing one-act plays written by some of the city’s newest published playwrights: fellow high school students. One of the playwrights is Raina Schoen Thomas, a sophomore at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy on Grand Street who wrote and developed her 10-minute play through LeAp OnStage, a year-long theater

program by Learning through an Expanded Arts Program, which places teaching artists in some of the city’s most underserved schools. An annual program, LeAp OnStage works with 10 schools, and around 500 students, each year. “A lot of these kids feel no one listens to them about what they care about,” said Alice Krieger, director of LeAp OnStage. “This is an opportunity to be heard, and from that, when people are hearing them it inspires them and gives them passion.” Schoen Thomas’ play, “Friendship in Dust,” illuminates the unlikely bond between a teenage boy named Isaac and a homeless woman he meets on his way to school, who helps him cope with bullies and an overprotective single mother who’s moved him to five new schools in two years. “I wanted to do something that touched on the issue of homelessness, like from a teenage perspective,” said Schoen Thomas, a soft-spoken, freckled 16-year-old. “When you see a homeless person you avert your

eyes, you don’t look. And I hate that. It’s like, right there, there’s a real person.” Throughout the academic year, each student in the citywide program works with LeAp’s educators to write their own 10-minute plays, and the strongest script from each school is selected for on-stage production at the Pearl Theatre. The 10 selected works are also published by play and musical publishing company Samuel French. Dennis Green, a LeAp teaching artist who worked with the students at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy and has been involved with the program since its inception in 2006, said he encourages the students to go beyond topics like vampires, love triangles and other themes that permeate popular culture, and instead sift through their own lives and surroundings for inspiration. Many of the plays explore issues relevant to teenagers, including parental pressures, friendship and dreams for the future. More than a few of the selected works confronted bullying.

Green often finds himself surprised by which students turn in some of the most promising work. “There are always some kids that are more extroverted,” said Green. “[Raina] wasn’t a very demonstrative or extroverted young woman, so it was kind of interesting and it was a little bit of a surprise when I got that play from her because it’s surprising and mature in some ways.” Like many opening night productions on 42nd Street, the theater was packed and the dimming of the lights indicated the show was starting. But less typical was the ebullient energy of the crowd of family, friends and teachers who stood up and cheered during curtain calls and clapped along to Pharrell’s “Happy” at the end of the show. Opening night was a celebration. Many of the performers in “Friendship in Dust” had been friends for a few years, but working on the show brought them closer, and introduced them to a new community of teenage thespians from across the city. And For Schoen Thomas, adding ‘published playwright’ to her resume is only the beginning. “I never realized I could actually do something like this, so it’s definitely something I’m going to try and build on,” said Schoen Thomas after the show, who held a bouquet of sunflowers tucked under her arm, a gift from her mother. “The theater itself, it really boosts confidence, even shy people in a simple high school production. I’ve seen kids just get transformed.”

Jasmine Hernandez, Angisselle Suarez and Jose Rivera rehearse a scene from “Friendship in Dust,” written by Raina Schoen Thomas, their classmate at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy in the Lower East Side. Photo by Alice Krieger

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“THE HOMESTRETCH” Screening as part of the 25th-annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival, “The Homestretch” follows three homeless Chicago teenagers as they work to finish school. At 89 minutes, the documentary, by filmmakers Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly (who will be on hand for a Q&A following the film) also holds a lens to issues of poverty, LGBT rights and juvenile justice in America. Friday, June 20 Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65 St., 4th floor 8:45 p.m. Tickets $13

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Fresh from a tour in Germany, local orchestra The Knights kick of this year’s Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, a series of free classical performances now in its 109th year. The program features of range of compositions from various centuries, including Luigi Boccherini’s string quintet “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid” and Charles Ives’ “Three Places in New England.” Tuesday, June 24 Central Park Naumberg Bandshell Entrance at East 72nd Street 7:30 p.m. FREE

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Hawaiian singer Meghann Wright’s vocals reflect an eclectic range of influences, with breathy, rattling inflections that evoke classic country and raspy growls that would be at home on a rock record. The Brooklyn resident also founded The City & The Heart, an organization that supports and promotes female musicians in New York City. Sunday, June 22 Mercury Lounge 217 East Houston St. 7 p.m. $13

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RULES OF SUCCESS: WHAT IS ALLOWED—AND WHAT DO WE ALLOW OURSELVES? As part of the opening celebration of the upcoming exhibition “Hungry Eyes,” SOHO20, a gallery dedicated to showing female artists, hosts a conversation between four of the show’s artists about the feminine experience, and selfexpression and realization. The panel includes painter and sculptor Fran Bull, and is moderated by visual artist, videographer, writer and curator Elizabeth Michelman. Wednesday, June 25 SOHO20 547 W. 27th St., Suite 301 6:00 p.m. FREE

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C.B. 3 TO CHOOSE CHAIR CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, through budget season. Stetzer said that a community board chair normally would not discuss such business with a reporter before a vote. Marlow, age 42, a senior policy advisor at the Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, told Our Town Downtown that in the past year and a half, the board has “constantly struggled with its own mismanagement.” “Because our full board meetings are so poorly run, they are excessively long and fail to use our time efficiently and effectively,” said Marlow. “Our community and many members of our board do not want another year like the one we just

CB3 was ruled by private agendas, so-called activists throughout the ‘90s and it was a disaster. Nobody in the city took the board seriously and because of this we got zero extra services.” Former Community Board 3 member

Because our full board meetings are so poorly run, they are excessively long and fail to use our time efficiently and effectively.” Chad Marlow, candidate for chair of Community Board 3

had, and the only way to avoid it is with new leadership at the top. The community wants change now.” Other issues that have played out on the board were the suspension of a neighborhood group, the LES Dwellers, who are opposed to the proliferation of bars and clubs on the Lower East Side, and the handling of an initiative to co-name portions of Rivington Street “Beastie Boys Square.” Marlow previously served two years on Community Board 2 and has experience on Community Board 1 and 4 in the Bronx in his time as a consultant for the New York Yankees. He heads a coalition of board members opposed to Li’s leadership, and said that while he has “quite a lot” of support on the board, he doesn’t know which way the vote will go. “The vote is going to be very close, which alone is a powerful commentary on how the current chair has performed,”

said Marlow. “I hope, in the end, the members of the board decide that it is wiser to give me a 12 month opportunity to show them how significantly I can improve the operation of our board than to endure another year of what we just experienced.” But Li, age 32, still has significant support on the board and in the community. City Council member Rosie Mendez voiced her support for Li at a board meeting after Li was accused in a letter by board member Ayo Harrington of racial insensitivity in her committee chair appointments. Our Town Downtown spoke with a former longtime member of CB3 who said Li was right to suspend the Dwellers in order to maintain the board’s autonomy. “CB3 was ruled by private agendas, socalled activists throughout the ‘90s and it was a disaster. Nobody in the city took the board seriously and because of this we got zero extra services,” said the former board member, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Our movement in the next decade was to try and be adults and work seriously with the city; this netted us the Lower East Side rezoning and [the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area].” Li and Marlow will each have a chance to address the board before the vote on June 24, which will include a short question and answer session.

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A SMALL BOOKSTORE WITH A BIG HEART Q&A President of Logos Bookstore tells the story of one of the last remaining independent bookstores in Manhattan BY ANGELA BARBUTI

UPPER EAST SIDE Residents of the Upper East Side have a bookstore they can call home. One where its president, Harris Healy, actually knows “quite a few” of them by name. The cozy feel of Logos Bookstore is complete with an outdoor garden for reading and a visiting cat. Healy has been a part of the store since 1985, when they were on Madison Avenue. Rent increases forced a move to York Avenue in 1995, where the store still stands between 83rd and 84th Streets. Healy, who has a masters in theological studies, grew the religious section, but also embraced his new neighborhood of young families, and developed his children’s area. Even during the summer months, the store continues to host their monthly book discussion fittingly titled “Kill Your TV,” and a story time for little ones.

How does being on the Upper East Side affect your selections?

We are in a neighborhood of people starting with families. Beginning with babies and going up to middle school and teenagers. We grew our children’s collection by people coming in and asking for different kinds of children’s books.

I understand that you have a background in theology. Yes I do. I went to a seminary after college for a couple of years and got a masters in theological studies. So I’ve always been interested in the religious books that we have in the store. We have all the traditions of Christianity and a good, solid Judaica section, as well as world religions, all side by side. Basically people come in and see all this and start to think a little about stuff. For some people, it’s a destination shop, where they’re going to come for that kind of book.

You have a book club there called Kill Your TV. Yes we do, on the first Wednesday of every month. It was founded by a customer in the fall of 1998. She was very involved with computers and wanted to get out of the house. She wanted to have a book discussion and she figured she had to do it in a public area because if she just did it with her friends, they really wouldn’t discuss the book. So she ran it for a few years until she moved in 2002 and I’ve been running it ever since. We completed 15 years last October. We choose a

Logos caters to the growing number of families on the Upper East Side book usually two months ahead of time. The only criteria is that it’s paperback, available, and has never been read or discussed in now our almost 16 years. There’s always wine, and sometimes people bring cheese. And at that time, you get 20 percent off most items in the store.

What’s the story behind the cat? The cat is there from time to time. It belongs to the friend of the store who does the informal little garden in the back. My senior staff member babysits it sometimes. His name is Boo Boo and he’s a lot of fun.

What are some funny customer requests you’ve gotten? Some want a certain cover, and they’re really not interested in the book at all. Basically, they’re doing some photo shoot and need the book in that. They don’t care what’s inside, it just has to look a certain way. One of the funniest things is some Bible customers will come in and ask for a compact, giant print, center-column reference Bible. Impossibility, can’t do it.

You have story time every week. Every Monday at 11. We have a wonderful story reader, she sometimes brings in her princess puppet. She does sing-alongs with the children and acts out the books. Basically it’s a group of five, with babies who are two or three. That’s where we make a lot of sales in children’s books, with the young books. We keeping reordering children’s books all the time, because all the popular titles keep selling.

I used to work at Rizzoli Bookstore, which recently closed. What’s your opinion about independent bookstores closing? It’s sad that this is happening. But what’s happening too is that the materials people read on have changed dramatically. Because with the advent of eBooks and eBook readers, where you can get hundreds of titles on a little machine, the whole dynamic has changed. Also, if you travel by airplane today, you’re lucky if you can check a bag for free, so the old days of people taking an extra bag of books is now 25 dollars. What the publishers are not grasping is that people really want eBook format or paperback for new au-

thors. They only want hardcovers if they like the author a lot. But the publishers have been subsidized in their expensive hardcover little deal by chains and by Amazon over the years. That’s one of the reasons why the publishers have not adapted. But I have living, screaming examples of people who don’t want to take a hardcover. I once offered a hardcover of a book that just came out in paperback, and the hardcover price was less than the paperback. The young woman blew up at me and said, “Look, this can’t even fit in my bag!” She screamed at me for about 15 minutes and I was like, “I wish the publishers could hear that.”

Why did the store move from Madison Avenue? Well, the rents were out of this world in 1995. Madison and that area just became too expensive back then. We were between 43rd and 44th Streets. Back then, we were at the street level of a very interesting old-style building that was very tall and had an interior bridge between its two towers. They destroyed that whole thing; it’s now a monstrosity. I discovered the area where we moved to from going to a Bible study at 78th Street between York and the river. It was an upholstery shop, but the guys who owned that business lost it to the bank over gambling debts and my landlord got it from the bank.

Which authors shop in the store? Jonathan Franzen, who has a writing studio nearby, said we were his favorite store. In fact, New York Magazine asks authors where they like to shop and he mentioned us.

IF YOU GO Logos is located at 1575 York Avenue, between 83rd and 84th Streets. www.logosbookstorenyc.com July Events Kill Your TV Reading Group will discuss The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, July 2 at 7 p.m.

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